Not really, but as it formed, the winds pushed the water away from the North to form what looks like fresh, white laundry blowing in the wind.

So many different ice formations occur around the St. Joseph, Michigan pier. The long icicles hanging from the catwalk and light tower, mounds of ice like stalactites sit near the lighthouse, drift ice in the water, and pancake ice slowly spinning in Lake Michigan.

In person, this area appears to be an alien world, especially when viewing the lake and lighthouse from the end of the pier, on the other side of this lighthouse. Maybe not alien, but truly a different world.

About Tom

Environmental and landscape photographer Tom Gill captures the natural and man made wonders of the southeastern portion of Lake Michigan, particularly lighthouses, the National Lakeshore, barns, and small town nostalgia. Tom is a blogger on The Huffington Post, and has earned international recognition for his photography, with publication in the Huffington Post, the Daily Mail, the Australian, Melbourne and Victoria Herald Sun, Adelaide Now,Civil War Times, Weatherwise Magazine, Backpacker Magazine, American Motorcyclist, and other major newspapers and magazines. The Weather Channel, CNN, ABC,NBC, WGN news affiliates, and countless online media outlets have also featured his work. Tom holds a Fine Arts Degree in design from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and aside from photography, enjoys woodworking, sketching, painting, and hiking with his family.

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